Suvarnagairika, Suvarṇagairika, Suvarna-gairika: 5 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Suvarṇagairika (सुवर्णगैरिक).—a kind of red-chalk.

Derivable forms: suvarṇagairikam (सुवर्णगैरिकम्).

Suvarṇagairika is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms suvarṇa and gairika (गैरिक).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Suvarṇagairika (सुवर्णगैरिक).—n.

(-kaṃ) A variety of red chalk, a sort of ochre. E. suvarṇa gold, gairika red chalk.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Suvarṇagairika (सुवर्णगैरिक):—[=su-varṇa-gairika] [from su-varṇa] n. red ochre, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Suvarṇagairika (सुवर्णगैरिक):—[suvarṇa-gairika] (kaṃ) 1. n. A variety of red chalk.

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Suvarnagairika in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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